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Students in Environment Geosciences at SRU have many opportunities to engage in student clubs, fieldwork, and internships.

Student Clubs

Geography, Geology and the Environment Club - Open to all students in the department
Gamma Theta Upsilon - Honorary society for geography and environmental studies students
Sigma Gamma Epsilon - National honorary for geology and environmental science students

Internships

The internship program started in 1987. Since then students have had internships with dozens of private and public organizations. The internship program is administered each summer by a selected faculty member from the department. Students register for 3, 6, 9, or 12 semester hours of credit. The course is open to all students who qualify under the program requirements.

Spring and Summer 2026 Internship Opportunities

Field Trips

Our department is committed to providing a wide variety of field opportunities for students to observe the real world. Recent field trips, course travels and research expeditions have visited local and distant sites such as Costa Rica, Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Ontario, Newfoundland, New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado, South Dakota, Maryland, New York City, Washington, D.C., Nicaragua, China, Death Valley, and Cascade Range. This list doesn't include the numerous cities across the U.S. where our students have attended professional conferences.

Scholarships

Environmental Geosciences Scholarships

Applications for our EGEO and GES scholarships are due March 1, 2026. To apply:

Please download the application form, fill it in (you can do this electronically) and save it.
Login to D2L. In D2L please go to Spring 2026 and "EGEO and GGE Majors - Spring 2026." Go to the dropbox and upload the following documents:
a. your filled in application form,
b. a pdf of your Rock Audit, and
c. your essay. Please write an essay on one environmental problem associated with climate change and explain how your elected discipline helps us understand and respond to it.
The essay should be well written and at a minimum 500 words in length.

In order to be qualified for any scholarship in the department, you need to be a full-time student and remain that status during the academic year 2026/27 with a minimum 3.0 GPA overall earned at SRU.

Scholarship Application Form: WORD | PDF

Other Scholarships

APSCURF - SRU Chapter 2025-2026 Scholarships: Application Deadline March 6, 2026 at 3:00PM

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